EU Advocacy Officer
Contract: Permanent, Full time, 38 hours per week
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Salary: €43,000 - €46,000 gross annually, depending on experience with excellent benefits
About WaterAid:
Want to use your skills in EU Advocacy to play a vital role in making clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone everywhere?
We need passionate, creative and dedicated people. In return, you will be encouraged and empowered to be yourself at your very best. Together, we will make a bigger difference.
Join WaterAid as EU Advocacy Officer to change normal for millions of people so they can unlock their potential, break free from poverty and change their lives for good.
About the Team:
The WaterAid International Affairs team plays a leadership role across the WaterAid Federation to drive the design and delivery of WaterAid’s major influencing with key donors, international and multilateral institutions to achieve SDG 6. The team’s purpose is to convince influential political decisionmakers to prioritise water, sanitation and hygiene in their policy and funding agendas, to increase WASH financing towards SDG6.
About the Role:
As our politically informed and creative EU Advocacy Officer, you will support WaterAid’s political advocacy to the European institutions and bodies.
You will deliver high quality briefings, events, and research to help advance progress on life-changing universal WASH access, adapted to the different EU institutions and stakeholders. You will monitor legislative, funding and political developments related to water and WASH, financing of the sector in the upcoming MFF, to WASH’s cross-sectoral impact, particularly in the areas of climate and health.
You'll also:
* Support and work with the EU Representative to build and maintain relationships across the European institutions and bodies.
* Identify opportunities to engage EU governmental stakeholders on increasing support towards SDG6, connecting across EU institutions.
* Lead engagement on behalf of WaterAid in a range of networks and coalitions, in particular in the area of health, gender and climate.
* Support the delivery of high-quality events for policy and political audiences.
* Lead daily monitoring of relevant EU political and development sector wide activities, keeping the team informed of relevant developments and engagement opportunities.
* Support the drafting of political briefings on key policy areas on WASH and water resilience, women's health and climate change.
Requirements
To be successful, you’ll need:
* Bachelor's degree in European affairs, development, economics, international relations or a related field, or relevant work experience.
* At least 1-2 years working in the EU advocacy and policy space, ideally working at/engaging with EU institutions (counting internships). Experience working at and/or with the European Commission, European Parliament, European Investment Bank or the EU water sector particularly desirable.
* Excellent research, writing, and analytical skills with the ability to synthesise complex policy documents and translate these for a wider audience.
* Experience of managing events desirable.
* Excellent organisational skills and the ability to multitask, manage workload independently and work to sometimes changing deadlines.
* Fluency in English; other European languages desirable.
View the full job description here
Closing date: Applications will close at 12:00 on 26th February 2025.
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